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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
had long wanted to wear a uniform in this war, but at almost 6 feet tall and not even 140 pounds, he didn’t meet the physical standards set by the armed services. When the 31-year-old registered for the draft in October 1940, his chest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Illustration by Mengxin Li After years of speculation, 2020 was meant to be a big year for the implementation of 5G, the fifth generation of standards for broadband cellular networks. And somewhere between a pandemic and a mountain of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 Oct 2018
- News
Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart
defer gratification forever. We can sacrifice as much as we need to, to be perfect or to match what standard somebody has set for us. And so, I have a feeling about my speaking career that is both very grateful for the skill and for the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
standard products also employ natural language processing for analysis. Arieli (left) and Schlatka (right) cofounded Synthesis to offer a mid-range solution for the growing executive assessment industry The key, Schlatka says, is not to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
president’s office at the University of Oklahoma. “My mantra was that I wanted to lead, to serve, to grow,” he says. Running a university met all three criteria, so in 2009 he took the helm of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, and after seven years, he joined RMU.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
districts and community colleges and creating apprenticeships. I'm not talking about jobs tourism, “Come on a field trip to my company.” I'm talking about compensated work to gain work experience and earn credentials. Such programs are the absolute gold View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
around the world. He set the very highest standards for himself and for all the rest of us. Hugo was always a great inspiration, support, and friend during all the years we were together.” Angela Q. Crispi (MBA 1990), the School’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
practices, such as the use of outsider-only boards. Acknowledging the difficulty of teaching ethics in a culture that increasingly views morality as private and relativistic, Mills still advocates a role for business schools in raising the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance for its... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
standardization of that information; evaluation of adjustments for the severity of illness of the patient; changes in the tax system to avoid discrimination against the uninsured; reform of state regulation, which one participant... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
be rectified.” Major changes included individualizing resource allocation and basing it on a child’s educational needs (“In Seattle, the schools with the smallest classes, the most teachers, and the most resources are the ones with the kids who are most difficult to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
impacts. Seeing an opportunity in the vast amount of waste within the food system, Imperfect Foods began purchasing “number twos” directly from farmers in California’s Central Valley in 2015. Those are the slightly lumpy tomatoes or twisted carrots that don’t meet the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) via a vote of the public. The RPS requires utilities to produce a specific percentage of power from renewable sources, and because of the ballot measure's popularity and success, the legislature... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
try to standardize the work those individuals do. And the net result is that people who have optionality, which tend to be our highest performers, tend to leave the classroom. And so then our average sinks down, because you have the top... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
with the country’s recent economic slowdown, China has more billionaires than the United States. Behind that fairly startling statistic are troubling related issues such as corruption among China’s elite and very wide variance in income, View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Andresen's 1986 departure). Andresen took time out to attend Harvard's Advanced Management Program in 1974 in order "to test my standards of management," he says. "I had been working nonstop for over five years and felt the need to take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
in part, by how much it gave away. If that seems counterintuitive at best and downright crazy at worst, think again. The Bridgespan Group, the consultancy they created, has turned the standard business model on its head. While consultants... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
through software, and I “write” on it as the lesson develops. Actually, my cousins have told me they like this “virtual Sal” better than the real-life me. They can start and stop and repeat me at will. How does Khan Academy change the View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
governments to use those resources to help people escape poverty. In the private sector, Rangan sees a positive trend among multinational corporations within industries to set and adhere to minimum standards for labor, the environment,... View Details